Óscar Chávez
Nacimiento : 1935-03-20, Mexico City, Mexico
Muerte : 2020-05-30
Historia
Óscar Chávez Fernández (20 March 1935 – 30 April 2020), better known simply as Óscar Chávez, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s.
Self (archive footage)
Supported by current images and national and international archives, this documentary narrates the life of the singer Amparo Ochoa, who learned music from her father, in Sinaloa. His passion for teaching, the decision to live in Mexico City, his indispensable role in the Mexican scene of the seventies and eighties, as well as his constant criticism of the government, are narrated by family and friends, such as Óscar Chávez, Gabino Palomares and Mercedes Sosa, who speak of the consolidation of the artist as a fundamental figure of Mexican popular song and feminist militancy.
50 years after the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, this documentary elaborates on how singing and chants played a significant part during the marches.
Singer (voice)
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
Pedro Gonzales
A finales de la década de los veinte, Pedro J. González, el ex revolucionario y telegrafista de Pancho Villa, abandona México en compañía de su mujer para emigrar a la caótica y multirracial ciudad de Los Ángeles. Una vez allí, consigue trabajo en una estación radiodifusora como lector de anuncios dirigidos a los hispanos. Al poco tiempo, González tiene a su cargo un programa matutino, “Los madrugadores”, en el que interpreta baladas y corridos mexicanos. Su éxito y popularidad despiertan la codicia de algunos políticos norteamericanos, que pretenden usarlo con fines electorales en una época marcada por la depresión económica y las deportaciones masivas de inmigrantes. Sin embargo, el locutor decide utilizar su espacio para ayudar a los suyos, aunque ello signifique un desafío al poder establecido.
Cuban Man
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.
Óscar Chávez
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
Singer at party
Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
Music
Durante la revolución mexicana, una dura y rica terrateniente es abrumada por la violencia de los tiempos. Perdiendo su tierra y casa, se enamora de un líder revolucionario que es asesinado por un sádico y corrupto oficial federal. Entonces ella toma la bandera de la revolución para liderar una campaña de violencia y destrucción que le permitan vengarse.
Fabián
Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.
(segment "La rebelde")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.
Padre Aurelio
Pelicula Mexicana. En una ciudad de provincia un supuesto cura fue asaltado, y las chicas de un burdel lo atienden mientras se recupera. Las chicas confían en él, pero hay una sorpresa...
A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.
Musician
"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach and his camera sink into the dust, on this sacred land, where "the land never ends."
El Estilos
Una pareja joven de clase alta se escapa de una fiesta con la intención de tener un escarceo amoroso en un coche abandonado. La llegada del capitán Gato y de sus caifanes cambiará los planes de la pareja para esa noche. Juntos, ricos y pobres, realizarán un pintoresco y "didáctico" viaje nocturno por cabarets, gasolineras, parques, funerarias y fondas de la ciudad de México.